The Black Hawk was conducting a check flight, and the pilot was being tested on night vision goggle uses and instrument flying.

As President Ronald Reagan said, “a shining city on a hill.” Llewellyn King is the executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

The crew of the helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport might not have heard instructions from the air ...